senior
junior
period
figure
arrive
pudding
12 m. means noon; a.m., before mid-day; p.m., after mid-day, as 9 a.m., 4 p.m. Sen., Senior; Jun., Junior.
I poured sauce over the pudding. Hugh's daughter is as high as my shoulder. We've a coop for poultry. Birds and fowl moult. By the court-house is a huge boulder. Mould two clay figures. A piece of wood smoulders in the furnace. The senior scholars recite in an hour. They arrive at 9 a.m. The juniors leave at 4 p.m. They dismiss us at 12 m. Make a cipher or naught. Cider is made by crushing apples.
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vein
skein
weigh
Peter
fever
lever
linen
muslin
chisel
metal
cocoa
coffee
Samuel
tangled
smother
Write—er after play, mow, preach, print, paint, bank, mill, fish, sell. Add—en to short, tight, cheap, slack, thick.
Notice the veins in Peter's wrist. The heavy coat will almost smother baby. Weigh the skein of tangled yarn. Iron is a useful metal. Rev. Daniel Robb will preach on Sunday, 9th inst., at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Samuel Johnson, Jun., was ill of fever. Dr. Brown uses cocoa and coffee. The chisel and the strong lever are made of steel. I spoilt my muslin dress and linen coat.
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wreath
wretch
wriggle
wring
wrestle
wrinkle
object
subject
earnest
aged
ashore
kindled
drunken
wrapped
blanket
N. stands for North; S., for South; E., for East; W., for West; N.E., North-East; S.W., South-West; St., Street.
A wreath of flowers. The drunken wretch had sunken eyes and a wrinkled brow. I wring clothes. Sleigh bells tinkle. Boys wrestle. Eels wriggle. Learn the object of the busy black ants. Study four subjects. Aren't they in earnest? An Indian, his squaw, and his aged mother crossed the river in a canoe. He tenderly lifted ashore the old woman, wrapped in a blanket. Then he kindled a fire and cooked some food for her.
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blouse
cinder
quince
centre
answer
view
weigh
metal
skein
lever
wrestle
junior
cocoa
wretch
cipher
doctor
question
cistern
smother
earnest
Daniel
wrinkle
period
circle
poultry
Dr. Jolly is visiting an unhappy wretch. A cinder lodged in his eye. Her blouse is wrinkled. Will you wrestle Daniel? He ciphers with the juniors. Answer my question. Weigh the cocoa, John. The centre of the cistern is a circle. A lever is made of metal. Let us view the poultry. Pare the quinces. A skein of yarn. For a short period we almost smothered.
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berry
cherry
cherries
suit
fruit
juice
nectar
number
bumble
honey
perfume
humming
beauty
quarrel
blossom
In berry, fly, baby, pony, story, city, change y to i and add—es. Use each word; as, One berry. Two berries.
Spring! The berry bushes are clothed in green. The fruit-trees, cherry, apple, pear, and peach, have lovely white and pink suits. They are full of perfume and beauty. Hear the humming sound made by numbers of insects. See the honey-bees, bumble-bees, flies, and wasps. They are feeding on nectar, the sweet juice within the blossoms. Do bees often quarrel?
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busy
busily
family
owe
tidy
tiny
debt
doubt
waist
owner
sower
earning
tongue
shining
bottom
In busy, easy, lazy, happy, pretty, merry, change y to i and add—ly. Use each word; as, The busy bee. John works busily.
We owe each tidy, busy worker a great debt. A bee tumbles down to the bottom of a flower. Here it reaches with tiny, shining tongue, the clear, sweet nectar. It is busily storing up for its own family, and no doubt earning money for its owner. But it is also doing another and a greater work for us. Without the bee's help we should have few juicy berries, apples, or pears. A sower sows the seed. The pail leaks. A girl's waist.
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pollen
yellow
gather
drones
spines
inside
cells
peal
fleas
hairy
slender
rubbed
setting
carried
In easy, lazy, greedy, happy, merry, change y to i and add—er—est; as, An easy chair. An easier chair. The easiest chair.
In the bee-hive is the comb of six-sided cells, made of wax. Bees gather pollen, the yellow dust on the tiny, slender spines inside the bloom. From this the workers make combs and bee-bread. The queen and the lazy drones have no wax pockets. A bee pushes its head and hairy body into a flower. Pollen clings to it and is carried into another blossom. There it is rubbed off and the setting of fruit is sure. Fleas bite dogs. Bells peal.
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